Vatican, 25 May, 2025 / 8:43 pm (ACI Africa).
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Guinean-born Robert Cardinal Sarah as his Special Envoy to the liturgical celebrations on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the apparitions of St Anne to the Yvon Nicolazic in France.
The appointment of Cardinal Sarah to preside over the liturgical celebrations scheduled for July 25-26 at the Shrine of Sainte-Anne-d’Auray in France’s Catholic Diocese of Vannes was made public by the Holy See Press Office on Saturday, May 24.
In August 1623, Yves Nicolazic, a Breton peasant, experienced a vision of a radiant lady, later identified as St. Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She reportedly instructed him to rebuild a long-lost chapel dedicated to her on his land, particularly in a field called Bocenno.
The vision led to the establishment of the renowned Catholic pilgrimage site at Sainte-Anne-d’Auray in Brittany, France.
The latest appointment of Cardinal Sarah comes days after a YouTube publication claimed that Pope Leo XIV had appointed the Prefect emeritus of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments his Special Envoy to “a newly created position” of the Holy See.